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Harry Potter

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Position

Leading Junior and junior for the defence in all areas of crime, including courts martial. Harry also has experience in prison law, including advising on judicial reviews, appearing at adjudications, and pro bono work making submissions on life tariffs and on removal from Category A Status.

Harry Potter has represented professional footballers on road traffic offences, and other private clients for fare dodging, for obscene publications, and for indecent images.

PUBLICATIONS

• 1983-2016: Articles on the War Poets, Sir Thomas Browne, the Book of Job, Jeremiah, the CJA 1991, life sentence tariffs, Category A prisoners, and young offenders, and various articles in History Scotland and History Today.
• 1993: Hanging in Judgment: Religion and the Death Penalty in England from the Bloody Code to Abolition (SCM Press)
• 1993 Hanging and Heresy: The Special Relationship: Anglo-American Attitudes to the Death Penalty (University of Kent, Pamphlet 28).
• 1994: (Ed. with Rodney Bomford)  Father Diamond of Deptford (Ditchling)
• 2000 ‘Rudyard Kipling and the Great War’ (The Kipling Society Journal, 74 December 2000)
• 2003  Bloodfeud: The Murrays and Gordons at War in the Age of Mary Queen of Scots (Tempus)
• 2004 Edinburgh Under Siege in the Marian Civil War, 1571-1573 (Tempus)
• 2015 Law, Liberty and the Constitution: A Brief History of the Common Law (Boydell and Brewer)
• 2019 Shades of the Prison House: A History of Imprisonment in the British Isles (Boydell and Brewer)
• 2022 Alexander Paterson: Prison Reformer (Boydell and Brewer)
• 2022 A Brief History of the Common Law, Chinese edn (Peking University Press)

Forthcoming in 2024: 

• ‘The Happy Warrior: Alexander Paterson and the Bermondsey Battalion’ in London Pride: the 47th Division (Helion)
• Shades of the Prison House: A History of Imprisonment in the British Isles Chinese edn (Peking University Press)

Career

Called 1993.

Languages

• English
• Classical Hebrew
• Greek
• Latin

Memberships

• Criminal Bar Association
• Positions of Responsibility
• 1984 Ordained priest in the Church of England
• 1984-7 Fellow, Selwyn College Cambridge
• 1992-2009 Vice Chair of Trustees of the 999 Club, Deptford
• 2002-6 Liberal Democrat Councillor in Greenwich

Education

• 1978 MA, History and Theology (1st Class, Cambridge)
• 1979 MPhil, Old Testament and Hebrew (Cambridge)
• 1992 LLB (Thames Valley)
• 1993 LPC Very Competent